C# Component Add Menu Item

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Hello,

I’ve been trying to add a simple bool to the menu on a Grasshopper C# component in Rhino 8. It appears that I need to add a Nuget package? How would I do that?

What do I need to add to get the code up and running?

The code, courtesy of James Ramsden:

        protected override void AppendAdditionalComponentMenuItems(System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown menu)
        {
            base.AppendAdditionalComponentMenuItems(menu);
            Menu_AppendItem(menu, "Flip myBool", Menu_DoClick);
        }

        private void Menu_DoClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            myBool = !myBool;
        }
        public bool myBool = false;

Any help or advice would be very very welcome!

Ash

2

I’m curious to see if it can be done too.
It seems that the GH_ScriptInstance class doesn’t have that method to override.
Also not much documentation on this GH_ScriptInstance

3

you probably need to add the System.Window.Forms dll as a reference.

right click on references and hit Add Reference

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My dll is residing in an old framework folder as I’m working on an old plugin, but you may be able to find it somewhere else for .Net Core

C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.8\System.Windows.Forms.dll

Remember to add

using System.Windows.Forms

in top of your script.

looks like this when added

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Edit: maybe system.windows.forms is actually among the default list of pickable references. My VS is throwing a UI error now so can’t check.

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Thanks @sonderskovmathias. That’s a really clear explanation.

That solves half the problem, the VS part. Getting System.Windows.Forms to load into the the C# node is throwing errors.

Also as @Will_Wang noted, GH_ScriptInstance doesn’t seem to have that method for Rhino 8.